Angel Arnaout, Jamie Brehaut, Christopher Hillis, Justin Presseau, Andrew Seely, Corinne Daly, Gavin Stuart, Michael Fung Kee Fung
{"title":"How a Canadian federal organization integrated synoptic reporting and quality improvement tools to drive a national learning health system in cancer surgery.","authors":"Angel Arnaout, Jamie Brehaut, Christopher Hillis, Justin Presseau, Andrew Seely, Corinne Daly, Gavin Stuart, Michael Fung Kee Fung","doi":"10.1177/08404704241236761","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241236761","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Accurate and complete surgical and pathology reports are the cornerstone of treatment decisions and cancer care excellence. Synoptic reporting is a process for reporting specific data elements in a specific format in surgical and pathology reports. Since 2007, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer has led the implementation of synoptic reporting mechanisms across multiple cancer disease sites and jurisdictions across Canada. While the implementation of synoptic reporting has been successful, its use to drive improvements in the quality of cancer care delivery has been lacking. Here we describe the 4-year, national multi-jurisdictional quality improvement initiative to catalyse the use synoptic data to drive cancer system improvements. Resources provided to the jurisdictions included operational funding, training in quality improvement methodology, national forums, expert coaches, and ad hoc monitoring and support. The program emphasized foundational concepts including data literacy, audit and feedback reports, communities of practice, and positive deviance methodology.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":" ","pages":"309-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140120993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ethics of artificial intelligence in healthcare: From hands-on care to policy-making.","authors":"E-H Kluge","doi":"10.1177/08404704241253985","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241253985","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contemporary healthcare at all levels increasingly uses Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, since the various levels involve different tasks, have different data needs, and different ethical obligations, the AIs that are used have to be differently structured. Also, since healthcare construed as a commodity involves different ethical parameters from healthcare construed as a right, and different ethical systems entail logically distinct considerations, this also necessitates the need for differently structured AIs. This column sketches how and why this is the case. It concludes with a brief look at why AIs programmed into quantum computers would not change this.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":" ","pages":"406-408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348622/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Declan C T Lavoie, Anika Maraj, Gigi Y C Wong, Fiona Parascandalo, Myles Sergeant
{"title":"Healthcare procurement in the race to net-zero: Practical steps for healthcare leadership.","authors":"Declan C T Lavoie, Anika Maraj, Gigi Y C Wong, Fiona Parascandalo, Myles Sergeant","doi":"10.1177/08404704241258152","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241258152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although it is challenging to assess the greenhouse gas emission footprint associated with individual products and services, health leaders can play a pivotal role in emissions reduction by understanding and utilizing available tools and certifications that measure suppliers' operational environmental performance. Integrating environmental standards into procurement and supplier selection has the potential to greatly impact emissions production across the healthcare landscape as it will pressure suppliers to improve their operations in order to be selected. The purpose of this article is to emphasize the importance of the supply chain in addressing healthcare-related greenhouse gas emissions. We provide an overview of the types of tools available that can be used to evaluate the carbon footprints of individual companies and rate their performances, as well as certifications that formally recognize companies' sustainability practices and commitments.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":" ","pages":"384-389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348617/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141735297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Braden J Manns, Stephanie Hastings, Greg Marchildon, Tom Noseworthy
{"title":"Health system structure and its influence on outcomes: The Canadian experience.","authors":"Braden J Manns, Stephanie Hastings, Greg Marchildon, Tom Noseworthy","doi":"10.1177/08404704241248559","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241248559","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthcare delivery systems in Canada are structured using three models: individual institutions, health regions, and single provincial systems, usually with smaller geographic zones. The comparative ability of these models to improve care, outcomes, and the Quadruple Aim is largely unstudied. We reviewed Canadian studies examining outcomes of provincial healthcare delivery system restructuring. Across models, results were inconsistent, and quality of evidence was low. For all provinces, primary care sits outside healthcare delivery systems, with limited governance and integration. The single provincial model can reduce costs of non-clinical support functions like finance, human resources, and analytics. This model may also be best at reducing variations in care, improving electronic information integration that enables clinical decision support and reporting, and supporting the provincial spread and scale of innovations, but further refinements are required and existing studies have major limitations, limiting definitive conclusions.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":" ","pages":"340-350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348631/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140917170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathryn Parker, Amanda Binns, Cooper Dupre, Farah Friesen, Dean Lising, Lynne Sinclair, Stella Ng
{"title":"\"What got you here, won't get you there\": Students as leaders of the change we need.","authors":"Kathryn Parker, Amanda Binns, Cooper Dupre, Farah Friesen, Dean Lising, Lynne Sinclair, Stella Ng","doi":"10.1177/08404704241259917","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241259917","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lack of access, system inequities, and inefficiencies plague our current healthcare system. With a challenge this complex, no one intervention is sufficient; all will be necessary. The primary care system needs a strong health workforce prepared in bold new ways. Students represent an important voice, given their role as future leaders of health education and healthcare. For students to lead, educators must leverage education paradigms that position current students as leaders of transformation. Yet, in current health education systems, students are often seen as passive recipients of knowledge and skill. Transformative education seeks to foster critical reflection (an ongoing process of questioning unhelpful assumptions and power relations) and informed action in students to enable them to challenge and change norms and change practices, structures, and society. This article highlights the value of transformative education in cultivating thoughtful change agents and provides one tangible example of a new education/practice model that puts this paradigm into action.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":"37 1_suppl","pages":"38S-42S"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11360273/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving staff wellness via an after-hours healthy sustainable meals program: A general surgery residency pilot.","authors":"Annie Lalande, Stephanie Alexis, Neha Gadhari, Sunny Mak, Jiaying Zhao, Andrea J MacNeill","doi":"10.1177/08404704241253284","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241253284","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthcare worker wellness is foundational to delivering quality care. Yet, healthcare facilities often lack access to healthy and sustainable food overnight and on weekends. Healthy, low-carbon meals were provided free of charge after hours to on-call General Surgery residents at the University of British Columbia and the impact on resident well-being assessed using pre- and post-intervention surveys. Financial and time stress reduced significantly with the provision of meals (<i>P</i>'s < .01), while emotional and physical stress levels did not change. Average meal expenses decreased from $33 to $10 (<i>P</i> < .001). Increasing food access on call is an impactful intervention to improve resident health and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":" ","pages":"390-394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141238029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation viewed through the context of the previous four decades.","authors":"Susan Anderson","doi":"10.1177/08404704241257141","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241257141","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Computers and applications of computers into our world have changed dramatically during the past five decades, from early days of minimal central processing unit capacity, limited memory and without advantage of global networking. In this article, the author highlights the application of predictive artificial intelligence in use globally over the last 40 years in process industries. It discusses the novel application of process automation and robotics in health clinical high-volume laboratory use that began as a Canadian innovation initiative and followed by similar innovation extending to other countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":" ","pages":"359-362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141318544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brittany Barber, Daniel G Rainham, Peter Tyedmers, Trevor Vandertuin, Gillian Ritcey, Sean D Christie
{"title":"Taking action towards climate-resilient, low-carbon, health systems: Perspectives from Canadian health leaders and healthcare professionals.","authors":"Brittany Barber, Daniel G Rainham, Peter Tyedmers, Trevor Vandertuin, Gillian Ritcey, Sean D Christie","doi":"10.1177/08404704241252032","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241252032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change poses significant public health and health system challenges including increased demand for health services due to chronic and acute health impacts from vector-borne diseases, heat-related illness, and injury from severe weather. As climate change worsens, so do its effects on health systems such as increasing severity of weather extremes causing damage to healthcare infrastructure and interference with supply chains. Ironically, health sectors globally are significant contributors to climate change, generating an estimated 5% of global emissions. Achieving \"net zero\" health systems require large-scale change with shared decision-making to coordinate a pan-Canadian approach to creating climate-resilient and low-carbon healthcare. In this article, we discuss healthcare professionals' and health leaders' perceptions of responsibility for practicing and advocating for climate-resilient and low-carbon healthcare in Canada.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":" ","pages":"395-400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348628/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140917171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards abundant intelligences: Considerations for Indigenous perspectives in adopting artificial intelligence technology.","authors":"Julia A Silano","doi":"10.1177/08404704241257144","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241257144","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare are evolving rapidly. The integration of AI into the Canadian healthcare system has demonstrated significant potential for enhancing the efficiency of care and improving patient outcomes. However, as this transformative technology continues to advance, it is crucial to take into account the unique perspectives and requirements of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. This article delves into the political, ethical, and practical considerations associated with introducing AI into Indigenous healthcare, emphasizing the paramount importance of equity and inclusion, which are rooted in the Two-Eyed AI framework. It also underscores the significance of co-creating AI technology in collaboration with Indigenous communities and multidisciplinary development teams. To illustrate these principles, this article spotlights an international AI epistemology-focused working group example. Healthcare professionals who engage with AI, whether it be through research, management, development, or leadership are implicated with this contemporary paradigm shift in decolonizing novel AI technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":" ","pages":"329-333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348629/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141238030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engagement with partners is a leading practice in health workforce planning: What health leaders need to know.","authors":"Zeenat Ladak, Henrietta Akuamoah-Boateng, Cynthia Damba, Rachel Frohlich, Shelly-Ann Hall, Joy Ikeh, Renata Khalikova, Sarah Simkin, Ruth Trainor, Catherine Yu, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault","doi":"10.1177/08404704241263015","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08404704241263015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Workforce planning ensures that the health workforce is aligned with current and future population needs. Engagement with partners and knowledge users is a leading practice in planning and is essential for planning to be successful. The goal of this study was to explore the considerations and processes involved in integrating engagement into workforce planning. Through a case study of primary care workforce planning in Toronto, we address the role of engagement, how it can be integrated into planning, and how lessons from engagement support spread and scale of effective workforce planning. In the course of engagement with five Ontario Health Teams between September 2023 and February 2024, we learned that there is considerable enthusiasm for planning, but that support is needed, and that engagement guides investment and strengthens relationships. We offer guidance for leaders with respect to actualizing engagement and building capacity for health workforce planning across the health system.</p>","PeriodicalId":39854,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Management Forum","volume":" ","pages":"377-383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348620/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141735296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}